Friday, September 17, 2010

squares

So I have been intrigued by the idea of a sampler afghan. I wanted to work with my friends who do knitting or crocheting and come up with awesome random blankets. The problem with that is there aren't that many friends who do those things or that want to. Plus then the debate comes up, what to do with the blankets? My friend Andrea and I have been trying to get a group of people together on a somewhat regular basis to work on projects. It has been pretty hard to arrange. So we have a new plan. We now have a host house, a few committed people and a set start date. We also have a project. We are going to knit squares for charity. Check out www.knit-a-square.com and you will see what we are up to. We can knit or crochet squares, hats, sweaters, and mail them off, and someone puts them together into blankets for orphans and needy kids in Africa.

A while ago I got a bunch of wool. It was super cheap so I bought it figuring I would figure out something to do with it later. This is it. The squares are better when made out of wool because they won't burn the little children up! No seriously, wool is flame resistant versus the acrylic that will melt and catch on fire if it is too close to the open flame. Anyway. It is my preschool knit time, so I better get going on the square.

Rhys' sweater is still in progress. Almost totally done with the body and I will just have to do the sleeves. Hopefully in the next week or two I will have that done. Ava can't wear her sweater I made her to school because she needs to have her name in it! I need little made by Emily tags to sew into my stuff. I am clearly at that professional of a level. I think I will then be making some mittens. I am completely in love with the sweater yarn from Spud and Chloe and they have some good colors for mittens.